afaik, most 3d printers work on g-code. most drawing packages do not
produce gcode directly, and it is usual to export as an stl file into a
'slicer' which splits the object into layers and generates the gcode for
the 3d printer. so, in openscad, you render the object (fn 6) and save
as stl. Then open the stl file in the slicer for preparing the g-code,
then feed the result to the printer. Many slicers can connect to the
printer, others you can transfer the resulting gcode file by sd
card/wifi/whatever.. The slicer also allows some alterations to the
object, scaling, etc.
wrt your error messages, it will be easier to diagnose the problem if
you post your scad file here. the second warning will need resolution,
the first often occurs if you have more than one object, for example. (a
box and a lid, say)
On 06/05/2022 11:38, Jan Öhman via Discuss wrote:
afaik, most 3d printers work on g-code. most drawing packages do not
produce gcode directly, and it is usual to export as an stl file into a
'slicer' which splits the object into layers and generates the gcode for
the 3d printer. so, in openscad, you render the object (fn 6) and save
as stl. Then open the stl file in the slicer for preparing the g-code,
then feed the result to the printer. Many slicers can connect to the
printer, others you can transfer the resulting gcode file by sd
card/wifi/whatever.. The slicer also allows some alterations to the
object, scaling, etc.
wrt your error messages, it will be easier to diagnose the problem if
you post your scad file here. the second warning will need resolution,
the first often occurs if you have more than one object, for example. (a
box and a lid, say)
On 06/05/2022 11:38, Jan Öhman via Discuss wrote:
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